- The wings are close but not good enough. Still have to do some texture painting to get rid of the white outline around the "veins". They are a blend between cglossy & sd. Blending glass gave better results, but also some white dots. - I could try a glossy mat. for the "fur", instead of sd.- Repaint some "fur" objects on the torax to have a darker base, so they won't "stick out" like that.- The legs are too "plasticky" and could use a bit of fake SSS effect. Maybe a blend with sd translucency.- Smaller texture corrections

@stoneage, by "rigid" do you mean that it wouldn't fly? I have been working on the wings and now they are improved (more transparent, but still with the feeling of thickness).

@Jaktens tid, I will probably do a simple environment, because I won't have time to do anything complex. On a leaf or something. I also have a nice reference pic of a wasp hanging on a window glass, which is very simple, yet effective.

Finally done. I'm satisfied, although tomorrow when I sleep it over and look again at it, I might be less satisfied.

I decided to put her on a window glass (hopefully that's noticeable ) because it was the fastest & easiest environment to do and it still looks ok. The camera POV might not give a good look at the whole body, but I wanted to have focus on the head, since it's better textured (higher res. images) than the rest of the body. I aspired to achieve a photo-realistic, believable result.

For whatever reasons when I try to upload the .png, the site says that the image file is invalid. Is there a size limitation (the renders are >2MB)? I uploaded on a sharing site.

@mookie, btw, the fur strands are modelled, not generated. The recent exporter update allows to render dupliobject visualized PS directly without applying it and also allows to toggle render visibility for emitter or PS, which makes life a little easier. In Blender 2.59 it's now possible to paint-rotate dupliobject visualized PS (that problem I was asking about in this thread), which also came just in time for this render.